Mission Impossible: My Life in Music Reflects on Life's Work in Classical, Jazz, and Film LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Scarecrow Press will release the
autobiography of six-time Academy Award(R) nominated composer Lalo Schifrin
this summer. Mission Impossible: My Life in Music, edited by Richard Palmer,
is a journey from Schifrin's formative years in Argentina to the classical and
jazz atmospheres in Paris in the 1950s; from his jazz career with Dizzy
Gillespie to his development as a film composer.
Organized in eight parts, the book reflects on Schifrin's cosmopolitan
experience providing impressions and vignettes of the extraordinary people
with whom he worked. His music bridges three styles -- jazz, classical, and
film/TV -- his autobiography offers insights on all three genres, as well as
politics, literature, and travel. It includes over 30 photos, appendixes
listing Schifrin's works, a discography, and an audio CD featuring some of
Schifrin's greatest compositions.
As a young man in his native Argentina, Lalo Schifrin received classical
training in music and studied law. He came from a musical family, and his
father was the concertmaster of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Buenos Aires at
the Teatro Colon.
After his studies at the Paris Conservatory, Schifrin returned to
Argentina and formed his own big concert band. Dizzy Gillespie heard Schifrin
perform and asked him to become his pianist, arranger, and composer. In 1958,
Schifrin moved to the United States and began his remarkable career.
Since then Schifrin's career has taken him in many directions. As a jazz
musician he performed and recorded with Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Ella
Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, Count Basie, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and George Benson.
His classical activities include Zubin Mehta, The Three Tenors, Rostropovich,
Barenboim, and others.
His longtime involvement in both the jazz and symphonic worlds came
together in 1993 as pianist and conductor for his on-going series of "Jazz
Meets the Symphony" recordings, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and
jazz stars like Ray Brown, Grady Tate, Jon Faddis, Paquito D'Rivera and James
Morrison.
Schifrin has written over 100 film and television scores including Mission
Impossible, Mannix, Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt, The Cincinnati Kid, Amityville
Horror, four of the Dirty Harry films, and more recently Abominable and the
Rush Hour trilogy. To date, Lalo Schifrin has won four Grammys(R) (twenty-one
nominations), one Cable ACE Award, and six Academy Award(R) nominations.
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